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Protecting Aotearoa’s water: The fight against nitrogen pollution
Everyone should be able to trust that the water from their tap is safe to drink. But synthetic nitrogen fertiliser - and the intensive dairying it enables - is causing alarmingly high levels of nitrate contamination in our drinking water, endangering people’s health.
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Flipping Lakes: When Lake Clearwater turns turbid
Ōtūwharekai/Ashburton Lakes are a beautiful set of wetlands and lakes in the Canterbury high country - and they're under threat from high levels of pollution.
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Nitrate contamination caused by the dairy industry puts rural people at risk
Safe and healthy drinking water is a basic human right, and no one should fear their water is unsafe to drink. But that’s the reality for many people in rural…
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Hiringa, green hydrogen and why Greenpeace opposes the Ballance urea plant expansion
Spoiler: Greenpeace is not opposed to wind turbines or green hydrogen. In fact, we support them. What we don’t support is a blank cheque for Hiringa and Ballance to produce…
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Nitrate contamination history taints Waimate’s best-tasting water award
Greenpeace says Glenavy residents of Waimate District might be galled at the local Council being awarded best drinking water awards when they recently spent weeks on emergency tank water due…
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Gore District Council and ECAN deny science on nitrate risks – Greenpeace
Greenpeace is calling out Environment Canterbury and the Gore District Council for denying the science of health risks due to nitrate contamination in drinking water, in their recent statements on…
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Ashburton nitrate contamination puts local communities at risk
Unacceptably high levels of nitrate contamination in drinking water in Ashburton and the surrounding area are putting residents’ health at risk, says Greenpeace Aotearoa.
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Testing finds Gore and Lumsden drinking water near nitrate reproductive risk levels
Free nitrate water testing undertaken by Greenpeace Aotearoa in Southland has found high contamination levels in the water supplies of Gore, Lumsden, and surrounding rural areas.
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National’s farm policy will make drinking water contamination and climate change worse
Greenpeace condemns the National Party’s new agriculture policy, saying that it will fail to address the climate crisis and health impacts caused by intensive dairying.
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MfE report shows widespread water contamination caused by intensive dairy
A new MfE report released today on the state of New Zealand’s freshwater, highlights widespread impacts of intensive dairying on the environment and people’s health and should spur the Government to act, says Greenpeace Aotearoa.
